Sale 219 Lot 445

A PARISIAN COUPLE GAZING AT TURCOS AT THE CAMP DE SAINT-MAUR, A DAUMIER SATIRE 1859 Honore Daumier (French, 1808-1879), lithograph on wove paper, plate no. 72 from the series "Au Camp de Saint-Maur," published by Aaron Martinet in the Parisian satirical journal "Le Charivari," depicting a bourgeois Parisian husband in a top hat and his crinoline-clad wife observing colonial Turco soldiers in turbans and fezzes, some seated on the ground and others standing with their backs turned, before a military tent. The dialogue between "La Dame" and "Le Mari" turns on the husband's anxiety that his pregnant wife's admiring gaze at the soldiers might mark her unborn child, a racist joke that lampoons bourgeois fascination with colonial troops. Monogrammed "hD" in the stone at lower left, numbered "72" at lower center, inscribed "Mon Martinet, 172 r. Rivoli et 41 r. Vivienne" at lower left and "Lith. Destouches, Paris" at lower right, and captioned with the full French dialogue beginning "Oh! mon ami..., quel beau turco!..." Unframed. sheet: 13.5 x 10.75 inches
$100-150